One other reason to be disciplined about distinguishing between SDNY/Cohen/hush payment // SCO/Russia // NYS/Trump investigations until we're sure they've merged is bc some people will respond to one or another kind of graft/corruption/sleaze but not others.
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But Weisselberg could be part of a third dangerous bucket — SDNY non-Cohen. We just don’t know yet.
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Agree. But thus far there is only evidence of Wiesselberg on Cohen (and possible exposure in NYS). My point is people are assuming things w/o evidence.
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Keep one point in mind: this immunity deal is going to make Trump so paranoid he won't be able to sleep.
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There’s also the charity foundation investigation. That’s 3 separate inquiries.
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And a very important one. Agree.
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So, are you reading Exective-2 as Weisselberg and Executive-1 as Don Jr.? If so, would that be how it comes back together? Leveraging the financial misdeeds to find out more about the Trump Tower meeting?
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You're doing what I just suggested we should resist doing. But thanks for playing.
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It's hard not too. Trying to make order out of chaos.
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Even if they focused on the payments, wouldn't they have asked if Tr. Org. reported Cohen's reimbursements as payment for services for tax purposes? If so, wouldn't it not only be evidence (per WaPo) of
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I think the main point is that Weisselberg has shown a willingness to give up Trump to save his own skin. He'll be used as needed on that basis.
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We all know the real danger is when the cops start looking at the Trump Organization's books, no matter how they come knocking through that door. Once they cross it they won't ever leave...
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Al Capone is a timely allegory for
@realDonaldTrump and the SDNY. T’wasn’t his criminal empire doings that got to Big Al. Just that pesky AND UNFAIR income tax thing.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Mueller. SDNY for Cohen. NY AG. Manhattan DA. Stormy, Summer and emoluments. The list continues to grow.
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Also re: immunity, isn't it possible that SDNY gave only "use" immunity to defeat a 5th Amendment claim by Weisselberg? Reporting isn't clear. If so we're talking about a pretty limited scope.
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People are seeing a deliberate strategy to lodge the part of the investigation that Trump decreed a "red line," his financial crimes and laundering of Russian mob and oligarch money into his projects, that would push him into firing Mueller in the SDNY where he can't do that.
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Weisselberg altering Trump org docs including and pertaining to Trump org tax fraud seems extremely relevant to Mueller looking at Russian money going to Trump
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Didn’t the Cohen investigation initially spawn from the Mueller investigation when possible illegal activity was found that was outside of Mueller’s mandate? I assume anything SDNY turns up that’s relevant to Russia will be shared with Mueller.
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I believe Avenatti's case helped this to proceed as Mueller was already on it. See the cooperation agreement with Michael Cohen's partner, Friedman. He got a sweet deal for flipping earlier this year, just before Cohen's homes/offices searched. Story in
@NYMag and the NYT.
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